New Delhi: The diplomatic war of words continued for another day, with India accusing Pakistan’s “increasing inability to use terrorists and their proxies” for triggering Pakistani foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s “uncivilised outburst” of referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “butcher of Gujarat”.The United Nations’ bodies are often the verbal battlefield for Indian and Pakistani diplomats to exchange stinging barbs. With external affairs minister S. Jaishankar chairing two signature events of the UN Security Council with references to stronger counter-terrorism, it was predictable that the Pakistani minister, currently in New York, decided to take a swipe at India.On Wednesday, Bhutto-Zardari raised the Kashmir issue during an open UNSC debate on multilateral reforms. At that time, Jaishankar had asserted that a country that hosted al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and attacked a neighbouring parliament does not have the credentials to “sermonise”.A day later, Jaishankar presided over a UNSC meeting on counter-terrorism, where he obliquely referred to Pakistan as the “epicentre” of terrorism in his remarks.Following the UNSC meeting, Jaishankar took questions from the media, where he responded to a statement of Pakistani minister of state for foreign affairs, Hina Rabbani Khar, calling India the “the biggest perpetrator of terrorism”.Jaishankar reiterated that Pakistan remains the “epicentre of terrorism” and “has its fingerprints over a lot of activities in the region and beyond”. “How long Pakistan intends to practice [terrorism] and hide it by taking that debate elsewhere? Please clean up your act. Please try to be a good neighbour,” he said.Jaishankar also restated that Pakistan had sheltered Osama bin Laden, who was killed by a US military team on May 2, 2011.Minutes later, Bhutto-Zardari also addressed the media in a UN briefing room. “I would like to remind Mr Jaishankar that Osama bin Laden is dead, but the butcher of Gujarat lives, and he is the prime minister (of India),” he said.The Pakistani leader also noted that the Indian prime minister had been earlier banned from entering the US when the latter was Gujarat’s chief minister. “These are the prime minister and foreign minister of RSS [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh], which draws inspiration from Hitler’s SS [The Schutzstaffel],” he added.Responding to the Pakistani foreign minister, Ministry of External Affair’s spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said that the comments were a “new low, even for Pakistan”.“Pakistan’s indisputable role in sponsoring, harbouring, and actively financing terrorist and terrorist organisations remains under the scanner. Pakistan FM’s uncivilised outburst seems to be a result of Pakistan’s increasing inability to use terrorists and their proxies,” he said.Bagchi reminded that the day also marked Vijay Divas, the surrender of Pakistani forces in Bangladesh in 1971. He noted that the 1971 conflict was a “direct result of the genocide unleashed by Pakistani rulers against ethnic Bengalis and Hindus”.“Unfortunately, Pakistan does not seem to have changed much in the treatment of its minorities. It certainly lacks credentials to cast aspersions at India,” the MEA spokesperson said.He claimed that Pakistan is a “country that glorifies Osama bin Laden as a martyr, and shelters terrorists like Lakhvi, Hafiz Saeed, Masood Azhar, Sajid Mir and Dawood Ibrahim”. “No other country can boast having 126 UN-designated terrorists and 27 UN-designated terrorist entities!”He noted that Pakistan foreign minister’s “frustration” would be “better directed towards the masterminds of terrorist enterprises in his own country, who have made terrorism a part of their State policy”. “Pakistan needs to change its own mindset or remain a pariah,” he added.In October this year, Pakistan was removed from the Financial Action Task Force’s ‘grey list’ after establishing that its financial system had implemented anti-money laundering safeguards to prevent terror financing.The MEA spokesperson claimed that “Special Terrorist Zones” in Pakistan had exported terror to cities like New York, Mumbai, Pulwama, Pathankot, and London. “‘Make in Pakistan’ terrorism has to stop”.“We wish that Pakistan FM would have listened more sincerely yesterday at the UN Security Council to the testimony of Ms Anjali Kulthe, a Mumbai nurse who saved the lives of 20 pregnant women from the bullets of the Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab. Clearly, the foreign minister was more interested in whitewashing Pakistan’s role,” he added.